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Deconstructing sexuality in the Middle East : challenges and discourses / edited by Pinar Ilkkaracan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754692799
  • 0754692795
  • 9786611766146
  • 6611766146
  • 9780754672357
  • 0754672352
  • 9781317153702
  • 1317153707
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deconstructing sexuality in the Middle East.DDC classification:
  • 306.70956/09045 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ18.M628 D43 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • 2008 L-334
  • HQ 18.M628
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Sexuality as a contested political domain in the Middle East / Pinar İlkkaracan -- Criminal law, women and sexuality in the Middle East / Sherifa Zuhur -- How adultery almost derailed Turkey's aspirations to join the European union / Pinar İlkkaracan -- Fighting honor crimes: evidence of civil society in Jordan / Stefanie Eileen Nanes -- Sex education in Lebanon: between secular and religious discourses / Azzah Shararah Baydoun -- Contesting discourses of sexuality in post-revolutionary Iran / Hammed Shahidian -- Who said that love is forbidden? Gender and sexuality in Iraqi public discourse of the 1970s and 1980s / Achim Rohde -- Militarization, nation and gender: women's bodies as arenas of violent conflict / Rubina Saigol -- Towards a cultural definition of rape: dilemmas in dealing with rape victims in Palestinian society / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- The 'Natasha' experience: migrant sex workers from the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe in Turkey / Leyla Gülçür and Punar İlkkaracan.
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Summary: The main concern of this volume is to explore the contemporary political and social dynamics pertaining to sexuality in the Middle East. The chapters illustrate that discourses, debates and challenges that surround sexuality are complex, and cannot be reduced to a single underlying factor, be it religion, culture, feminism - or secularism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Sexuality as a contested political domain in the Middle East / Pinar İlkkaracan -- Criminal law, women and sexuality in the Middle East / Sherifa Zuhur -- How adultery almost derailed Turkey's aspirations to join the European union / Pinar İlkkaracan -- Fighting honor crimes: evidence of civil society in Jordan / Stefanie Eileen Nanes -- Sex education in Lebanon: between secular and religious discourses / Azzah Shararah Baydoun -- Contesting discourses of sexuality in post-revolutionary Iran / Hammed Shahidian -- Who said that love is forbidden? Gender and sexuality in Iraqi public discourse of the 1970s and 1980s / Achim Rohde -- Militarization, nation and gender: women's bodies as arenas of violent conflict / Rubina Saigol -- Towards a cultural definition of rape: dilemmas in dealing with rape victims in Palestinian society / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- The 'Natasha' experience: migrant sex workers from the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe in Turkey / Leyla Gülçür and Punar İlkkaracan.

The main concern of this volume is to explore the contemporary political and social dynamics pertaining to sexuality in the Middle East. The chapters illustrate that discourses, debates and challenges that surround sexuality are complex, and cannot be reduced to a single underlying factor, be it religion, culture, feminism - or secularism.

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